Susan Mernit is the co-founder of People's Software Company, a start-up building interactive local community platforms, a BlogHer contributing editor on Sex & Relationships , a former exec at Yahoo, AOL, Netscape and Advanced Internet, and a dedicated blogger.

She is also an evangelist for the 2008-09 Knight News Challenge
; talk to her about applying for grants to build open source community
projects that support news, discourse and the commons.

Susan spent the summer in Boulder, CO, incubating her new company at TechStars, but home is the Bay area--in fact, she is looking for housemates for an east bay intentional community--contact her if you might be interested.